Posts by musashin

Portable and with the graphics card external? Sounds like you're asking for trouble there.

Any change in architecture, or is this just an overclocked 8150?

Money as no object, 690 is clearly the way to go. Pursuit of performance is our motto, right?

It really depends on the card and the manufacturer / reseller. Often they are simply the same card with a small BIOS modification, and sometimes they are improvements on the original designs in terms of VRMs, memory, etc. In this case,...

I have presumably successfully flashed both BIOSs on my reference Sapphire 6950 to stock from a shader unlock modified 6950 BIOS I have been using for over a year now. The card still will not POST. With a secondary card in the main...

My Sapphire 6950 died on me last night. I had the shaders unlocked and overclocked to 900 core 1400 memory. The card is now completely unresponsive and will not boot at all, so I can't get into it to reflash the BIOS. The fan spins on...

Went to Best Buy and picked up a stick of RAM, a 6770, and a 600W PSU. First thing I tried was 6770 and voila, working computer. Guess it's Sapphire RMA time!

Quote:Originally Posted by speud I don't know if you already tried this, but remove the power button cable and jump the motherboard with a screwdriver or something. What exactly would this accomplish?

Nothing unusual at all aside from slightly higher temps that I would attribute to higher ambients from summer, and the random crashes over the past couple weeks that aren't necessarily CPU related. Typical idle temps around 40C, load...

I do not have another GPU available to me, unfortunately. The CPU has been installed and working properly for almost a year and a half now, so I would be surprised if it were a CPU issue.